by admin | Nov 16, 2023 | Christian, Poems by Men
I saw the Sun at midnight, rising red,Deep-hued yet glowing, heavy with the stainOf blood-compassion, and I saw It gainSwiftly in size and growing till It spreadOver the stars; the heavens bowed their headAs from Its heart slow dripped a crimson rain,Then a great...
by admin | Oct 31, 2023 | Christian, Poems by Men
Maker of earth and sky, from age to ageWho rul’st the world by reason; at whose wordTime issues from Eternity’s abyss:To all that moves the source of movement, fixedThyself and moveless. Thee no cause impelledExtrinsic this proportioned frame to shapeFrom...
by admin | Oct 22, 2023 | Christian, Poems by Men
Listenif now and thenyou hear the deadmuttering like ashescreaking like emptyrockers on porchesfilling you in filling you inlike winds in emptybranches like starin wintry treesso farso goodyou’ve mastered finallyone foreign tongue
by admin | Oct 11, 2023 | Christian, Poems by Men
How the might of Nature swaysAll the world in ordered ways,How resistless laws controlEach least portion of the whole—Fain would I in sounding verseOn my pliant strings rehearse.Lo, the lion captive ta’enMeekly wears his gilded chain;Yet though he by hand be...
by admin | Oct 11, 2023 | Christian, Poems by Women
In the pupil of chastity’s eyeI beheld youuntouched.Generous maid! Know that it’s Godwho broods over you.For heaven flooded you likeunbodied speechand you gave it a tongue.Glisteninglily: before all worldsyou lured the supernal one.How he reveledin your...
by admin | Oct 4, 2023 | Christian, Poems by Men
Near, far off, not here, not there,In realms of mystic reveries,In a world invisible to mortal eyes,In a world neither of laughter nor of tearsThere it was, goddess, that I firstRecognized you one misty night.A strange child was I,And strange dreams did I see.It was...
